Both `handle_names()` and `_record_who()` should update both
`bot.privileges` and `bot.channels`...

search: quote URL parameters

Instead of doing this:

from sopel.module import rule
from sopel.tools import SopelMemor...

etymology: quote URL parameters

DuckDuckGo uses query parameters, too,
and `requests.get` does what it needs to do.

So here we ...

Again, `requests.get` does the job and properly encode query parameters
as it should, so this wo...

A query parameter in an URL query string must be encoded in an URL
encoded format, using %20 for...

The `ety` command now properly encodes the search term used in the URL
to request www.etymonline...

Add docstrings for privilege levels

calc: Make emoji spam possible (support Unicode characters)

etymology: fix py3.3 compatibility

Travis wasn't testing on 3.3, so a bug slipped in with the rewrite for
Sopel 6.6.0 (#1432).

Wit...

dice: clean up the dice "choose" command output (fix #1420)

The likelihood of actually having another release in the 6.6.x series is
diminishing. Merging no...

config: don't assume ~/.sopel as dotdir

New global added in #1429 is a no-brainer to use in these spots.

Infer config directory from given config filename.

Resolves #1243

Create .codeclimate.yml

Allow environment variables to replace configuration options

This is a first step towards completing #1455, since, as @dgw mentioned,
to do so would require ...

NEWS: Create and enforce format spec

There's just no good way to give examples that won't break the script
(which only ignores text b...

With the website using NEWS to generate a whole section of pages, a more
formal definition of th...

Keeping master up-to-date as we go should minimize the risk of merge
conflicts later, when the 6...

Get specific about dnspython requirement

Update supported IPython versions again

dnspython dropped support for Python 3.3 in version 1.16.0, so we have
to special-case that. Ot...

I can't WAIT to drop the ipython module from core.

Less than a year after dropping py2 suppor...

wiktionary: fix query logic

wiktionary: fixing .lower() logic

Implement restart functionality

A few commits back, the commit adding the "restart" command originally
tried to do some cleanup,...

"TypeError: 'bool' object is not callable" is all .restart would do,
because `restart` was defin...

Adapted from 3b7dcad in PR 1103. I just removed some stuff that broke.
— dgw

run_script: clean up & reorganize code

When the bot exits due to an error, its exit code must not be 0, so we
return a non-0 value. By ...

coretasks: split AUTHENTICATE token in 400-byte chunks

When you install Sopel using `pip install` (or `setup.py develop`), it
installs a script, that c...

TL;DR: global variables make testing difficult and reduce reusability

The function `find_config...

The `sopel.run_script.homedir` variable was a "global" variable that
belonged to the configurati...

TL;DR: global variables make testing difficult and reduce reusability

The function `enumerate_c...

core: properly truncate long messages with 2-byte characters

loader: test coverage

The config's default value for "nick" could be changed, breaking any
tests that rely on this val...

Tested cases:

* test function has new attributes,
* these attributes all have a default value,
...

Maintenance branches will always look like Major.Minor.X, so it seemed
easier to give them a sep...

cli: fix configpath issue for wizard

Now checks if the config file passed to `-c` already has a `.cfg` extensions before appending on...

Sometimes I forget which version of python I am using :( Really though, this stemmed from testin...

Technically we still advertise support for this version, too.

setup.py: add Trove classifiers

Python doesn't really support attaching docstrings to class attributes,
but the alternative way ...

Little things like a logo, favicon, and navigation link that goes "back"
to the main website mak...

This all started when I realized the /docs/ index page actually linked
to the wiki. Honestly, th...

Prefix expected variable names with "SOPEL_" to further reduce the risk
of name collisions.

Use...